It is the first time that he has publicly assumed that description.
Because we are faced with a government, the Colombian government, that has publicly assumed the Bush doctrine — preventive war, preëmptive attack".
Indeed, he for many years publicly assumed the same attitude toward immigration-law enforcement that most local police chiefs do: more serious crimes deserve precedence.
On June 29 he publicly assumed the title of al-Mahdī, who, according to a tradition cherished by the oppressed throughout Islamic history, would appear to restore Islam.
If there is a precedent for the reform and rehabilitation of child criminals publicly assumed to be intrinsically evil and beyond help, then it comes in the form of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.
Accordingly, the households reported that elderly people proved more competent than publicly assumed.
First Solar and Apple have publicly assumed the role of environmental stewards.
He has publicly assumed them: "[My critics have] have constantly tried to divide my personality: on the one hand, they do not hesitate to call the writer great, but on the other hand, there is this ferocious communist.
But, if Obama and his team ultimately want to conclude a deal, they will, at some point, have to retreat from the diplomatically untenable positions they have so publicly assumed -- thereby exposing themselves to even stronger political attacks.
As early as 1845, Delia Bacon had theorised that the plays attributed to Shakespeare were actually written by a group under the leadership of Sir Francis Bacon, with Sir Walter Raleigh as the main writer, whose purpose was to inculcate an advanced political and philosophical system for which they themselves could not publicly assume responsibility.
